Creating a Family Adoption & Foster Care Education

I am a huge believer in Creating a Family, because we know how important solid education is as part of the adoption process. Families are making an emotional, personal, and lifelong decision to welcome a child into their family, and they need all the information we can give them to be educated and prepared. For many years, we have partnered with Creating a Family to offer all their courses without charge to our pre and post adoptive families. Without reservation, I recommend Creating a Family courses at every stage of the adoption process.

When I’m sitting with a new family that is considering adoption, they are often coming to me with varying degrees of understanding about the process. They might not understand some core issues, like talking to kids about adoption, openness, or how to evaluate risks like a child’s prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol. In each of these cases, I know of Creating a Family courses I can send them to that feature true national experts and will give them a full and complete understanding of these issues.

When we are working on the home study, Creating a Family helps us customize the required pre-adoption education to make it work best for each family. If a family is adopting transracially, for example, I know of several fantastic courses that will deepen their awareness. One of my favorites that is highly impactful is a panel of young adult transracial adoptees talking about their experiences. It’s just phenomenal.

Lastly, even after adoption, we make Creating a Family courses available to our families. I really value post-adoption support, and appreciate that if a child is struggling with school issues, sleep problems, food hoarding, or any number of adoption-related situations- once again, there is a fantastic Creating a Family course for that.